ArmInfo. Tigran Mukuchyan, CEC head told the journalists about high technical preparation of Yerevan City Council elections conducting. According to him, video recorders are set in all polling stations of Yerevan, technical equipments continuously work. "Polling stations opened at 8am Yerevan time, in the required order and scheduled time," Armenian CEC head said. According to Mukuchyan, to conduct Yerevan City Council elections 474 polling stations are formed, 3792 electoral committee members are registered, 14 of them are absent.
Earlier, Yerkir Tsirani leader, talking about violations of electoral right, stated that these elections differ from election on territorial lists by the mechanism, which is tried to be implemented. According to her, over 50 % of strongboxes in the poilling stations of Yerevan were not fixed by the cameras. She stated that all night the members of the party observed polling stations and found out a strongbox being removed by policemen in the polling station 9/46.
Today, on May 14 Yerevan City Council elections are being conducted in Yerevan, the body which will elect Yerevan's Mayor. RPA electoral list leads active Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan, Yerkir Tsirani Party list-Zaruhi Postanjyan, and the electora list of Yelq bloc-Nikol Pashinyan. Yelq bloc's list heads Nikol Pashinyan , then come Araik Harutyunyan and David Khajakyan. Yerkir Tsirani party is headed by ex lawmaker Zaruhi Postanjyan, then come Mnatsakan Pakshiev and Sona Aghekyan. From the Republican Party of Armenia the list is headed by the active Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan, then come well- known chess player, international grand master Smbat Lputyan and the director of one the biggest IT companies in Armenia, Synopsys Armenia, Hovik Musaelyan. As only 3 political forces participate the elections, all of them will get posts in Yerevan City Council (all 65). The force, which would get the majority of votes, will nominate its candidacy to Mayor (first number in the list). The number of candidates totals 308, 98 from them are women. Yerevan City Council elections' observation mission is being implemented by 17 local organizations (more than 5 thousand observers) and one international organization (10 observers).